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Policy Statement Number 9 August 2002 There are many misperceptions and misunderstanding about the federal regulations and particularly when it comes to issues regarding raising the dose over 100 mgs. Prior to the HIV epidemic in order to raise a patient’s dose it was required for the physician to contact the Food and Drug Administration…

The Associated Press State & Local Wire, May 3, 2005. DATELINE: Baltimore The state health department has stopped running laboratory tests for Maryland’s methadone clinics, removing a safeguard against misuse of the drug, potentially worsening what authorities say is a growing problem. Methadone, a heroin replacement medication, is used by about 13,400 recovering addicts in…

Pre-conference Meeting Sunday, October 7th Unifying the Treatment Community This special pre-conference meeting is divided into two sessions – a morning and afternoon session. These sessions have been developed by the Advocacy Coalition: National Alliance of Methadone Advocates (NAMA), Advocates for Recovery through Medicine (ARM), Advocates For the Integration of Recovery and Methadone (AFIRM), Virginia…

Ira Sobel, M.A. is Staff Writer and Researcher for Methadone Awareness, Editor-at-Large for The Ombudsman and has written articles for the newsletters of many of NAMA’s affiliates. Have you ever been discriminated against because of being on methadone? Were you ever blackballed by a 12 step program and at the same time told to sit…

Michael Grenga and H. Spencer Nelson are members of NAMA and patients from programs in upstate New York. Grenga, M. and Nelson, H.S. 1995. Methadone Treatment in New York. The Ombudsman (Spring/Summer) No. 3/4: 5-6. When the first methadone programs were set up in this country, one of the biggest factors in allowing these programs to…

The belief that substances addict people is driven by the fact that few people have any real idea of responsibility without considering it to be equivalent to blame.  The whole disease theorys main attraction is that it gets people off the hook.  If their disease make them behave poorly, then they are not to blame. …